While the end of any given year is chock full of films that come across as more spectacle than actual substance, few films have brought both with as much consistency and assurance as the latest and possibly greatest effort from director Miguel Gomes. Over the last two weeks, the first two films from Gomes’ Arabian Nights trilogy(?) have begun a theatrical run that has brought both Gomes’ absurdist take on the legendary fables from which the film draws its title as well as his powerful dissection of modern injustices that has sent his native Portugal into a downward spiral. And now, with The Enchanted One, the triptych comes to a close, and with a hell of a bang.
Taking back over the narrative thrust of the story, Volume Three puts its focus back on the central narrative force of the trilogy, the beautiful storyteller Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate). Whereas the first...
Taking back over the narrative thrust of the story, Volume Three puts its focus back on the central narrative force of the trilogy, the beautiful storyteller Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate). Whereas the first...
- 12/17/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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